2020-2021 MASL Readers Awards Final Nominees
The final nominees for MASL’s 2020-2021 Readers Awards are listed below.
Congratulations to all authors, illustrators and publishers!
These nominated titles will be voted upon by students in March of 2021; the recipients of the awards will be announced at the 2021 MASL Spring Conference.
Gateway (Grades 9-12)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A Heart in a Body in the World | Deb Caletti | Simon Pulse |
| After The Shot Drops | Randy Ribay | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Camp Valor | Scott McEwen and Hof Williams | St. Martin’s Press |
| Dread Nation | Justina Ireland | Balzer + Bray |
| Dry | Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman | Simon & Schuster |
| Flight Season | Marie Marquardt | Wednesday Books |
| Hey, Kiddo | Jarrett Krosoczka | Graphix |
| Little White Lies | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Freeform |
| Monday’s Not Coming | Tiffany Jackson | Katherine Tegen Books |
| Neanderthal Opens The Door To The Universe | Preston Norton | Hyperion |
| Someone I Used to Know | Patty Blount | Sourcebooks Fire |
| The Book Of Essie | Meghan MacLean Weir | Alfred A. Knopf |
| The Cruel Prince | Holly Black | Little Brown Books |
| The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperTeen |
| The Unfortunates | Kim Liggett | Tor Teen |
Truman (Grades 6-8)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| City of Ghosts | Victoria Schwab | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Deep Water | Watt Key | FSG Books for Young Readers |
| Fire & Heist | Sarah Beth Durst | Random House Children’s Books |
| Ghost Boys | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Impostors | Scott Westerfeld | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Lifeboat 12 | Susan Hood | Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers |
| Mascot | Antony John | HarperCollins |
| Nightbooks | J. A. White | Katherine Tegen Books |
| Not If I Save You First | Ally Carter, | Scholastic Press |
| Skyward | Brandon Sanderson | Delacorte Press |
| The Benefits of Being an Octopus | Ann Braden | Sky Pony |
| The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | Stacy McAnulty | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Mark Twain (Grades 4-6)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| 24 Hours in Nowhere | Dusti Bowling | Sterling |
| Amal Unbound | Aisha Saeed | Nancy Paulsen Books |
| Blended | Sharon M Draper | Atheneum |
| Captain Superlative! | J.S. Puller | Disney |
| Front Desk | Kelly Yang | Arthur A. Levine |
| Squint | Chad Morris and Shelly Brown | Shadow Mountain |
| The Ambrose Deception | Emily Ecton, | Disney |
| The Doughnut FIx | Jessie Janowitz | Sourcebooks |
| The Night Diary | Veera Hiranandani | Dial Books |
| The Science of Breakable Things | Tae Keller | Random House |
| The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle | Leslie Connor, | Katherine Tegan Books |
| The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair | Amy Makechnie | Atheneum |
Show Me (Grades 1-3)
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| A Place For Pluto | Stef Wade | Melanie Demmer | Capstone |
| DOLL-E 1.0 | Shanda McCloskey | Shanda McCloskey | Little, Brown & Co |
| Friends Stick Together | Hannah E. Harrison | Hannah E. Harrison | Penguin RH |
| Giraffe Problems | Jory John | Lane Smith | Random House Children’s |
| Love, Z | Jessie Sima | Jessie Sima | Simon & Schuster |
| Max Explains Everything: Grocery Store Expert | Stacy McAnulty | Deborah Hocking | Penguin RH |
| Natsumi! | Susan Lendroth | Priscilla Burris | Penguin RH |
| The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick | Drew Daywalt | David Spencer | Penguin RH |
| The Remember Balloons | Jessie Oliveros | Dana Wulfekotte | Simon & Schuster |
| We Don’t Eat Our Classmates | Ryan T. Higgins | Ryan T. Higgins | Disney |
Downloadable list of all the 2020-2021 MASL Readers Awards Final Nominees.